Experimenting my own illustration

The other day I started to work on creating my own illustration that conveyed my FMP dress, I didn't have a clue where to start, I had sampled out many different medias before hand but I was still clueless. I finally decided to place my dress on the mannequin and start to draw from different angles, to see which was best.

I then choose to the best angle and experimented more with it, playing around with the proportion and angle. Once I had got a good enough figure/ angle that I was happy with, I moved onto experimenting with what medias I would use. I knew that thick acrylic would be best but I wasn't sure which was the best way to use it. I sampled out layering different paints on top of each other to give it that thick industrial look, but I also tested out scrapping the paint down with a piece of plastic and layering that up. This technique worked out best as it gave the best outcome.  

Painting

Scrapping